Expo Updates Not working With Expo Custom-Dev-Client and EAS Build

Summary

I’m trying to integrate expo-updates in a Expo Custom Dev Client bare managed project. For some how i can be able to build apk with eas build & its working fine.

But Expo updates not working i’m publishing update using expo publish command

expo publish --release-channel channel-name

But in the app i’m not getting any update notification than i try to setup config for update manually

`const triggerUpdateCheck = async () => {

    try {
        const update = Updates.checkForUpdateAsync();
        if (update.isAvailable) {
            await Updates.fetchUpdateAsync()
            alert("An update is available, Restart your app to see it.")
        } else {
            alert("No update is available")
        }
    } catch (err) {
        alert(error.message)
    }
}`

But i'm always getting there is no update available
I also had cross check both apk & publish update release channels.

For the manual update what i have done in a app.json

`"updates": {
  "enabled": true,
  "checkAutomatically": "ON_ERROR_RECOVERY",
  "fallbackToCacheTimeout": 0
},`

Managed or bare workflow? If you have ios/ or android/ directories in your project, the answer is bare!

bare

What platform(s) does this occur on?

Android

SDK Version (managed workflow only)

No response

Environment

Expo CLI 5.0.3 environment info: System: OS: Windows 10 10.0.19043 Binaries: Node: 14.15.4 - C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.EXE Yarn: 1.22.11 - ~\AppData\Roaming\npm\yarn.CMD npm: 7.24.0 - C:\Program Files\nodejs\npm.CMD SDKs: Android SDK: API Levels: 23, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 Build Tools: 23.0.1, 28.0.3, 29.0.2, 29.0.3, 30.0.2, 31.0.0, 32.0.0 System Images: android-30 | Google APIs Intel x86 Atom, android-30 | Google Play Intel x86 Atom IDEs: Android Studio: Version 2020.3.0.0 AI-203.7717.56.2031.7583922 npmPackages: expo: ~43.0.2 => 43.0.3 react: 17.0.1 => 17.0.1 react-dom: 17.0.1 => 17.0.1 react-native: 0.64.3 => 0.64.3 react-native-web: 0.17.1 => 0.17.1 react-navigation: ^4.4.4 => 4.4.4 Expo Workflow: bare

Reproducible demo

const triggerUpdateCheck = async () => { try { const update = Updates.checkForUpdateAsync(); if (update.isAvailable) { await Updates.fetchUpdateAsync() alert("An update is available, Restart your app to see it.") } else { alert("No update is available") } } catch (err) { alert(error.message) } }

App.json file changes:

"updates": {
      "enabled": true,
      "checkAutomatically": "ON_ERROR_RECOVERY",
      "fallbackToCacheTimeout": 0
    }

**EAS Config**

{
"cli": {
 "version": ">= 0.38.2"
},
"build": {
 "development": {
   "developmentClient": true,
   "distribution": "internal"
 },
 "preview": {
   "distribution": "internal"
 },
 "production": {
   "android": {
     "buildType": "apk",
     "gradleCommand": ":app:assembleRelease"
   },
   "releaseChannel": "production",
   "env": {
     "APP_ENV": "production"
   }
 },
 "production-debug": {
   "android": {
     "buildType": "apk",
     "gradleCommand": ":app:assembleDebug"
   },
   "releaseChannel": "production",
   "env": {
     "APP_ENV": "production"
   }
 },
 "test": {
   "android": {
     "buildType": "apk",
     "gradleCommand": ":app:assembleRelease"
   },
   "releaseChannel": "test",
   "env": {
     "APP_ENV": "staging"
   }
 },
 "test-debug": {
   "android": {
     "buildType": "apk",
     "gradleCommand": ":app:assembleDebug"
   },
   "releaseChannel": "test",
   "env": {
     "APP_ENV": "staging"
   }
 },
 "staging": {
   "android": {
     "buildType": "apk",
     "gradleCommand": ":app:assembleRelease"
   },
   "releaseChannel": "staging",
   "env": {
     "APP_ENV": "staging"
   }
 },
 "staging-debug": {
   "android": {
     "buildType": "apk",
     "gradleCommand": ":app:assembleDebug"
   },
   "releaseChannel": "staging",
   "env": {
     "APP_ENV": "staging"
   }
 },
 "production-bundle": {}
},
"submit": {
 "production": {}
}
}

Will be a great help if anyone can give some guidelines, how it should be implemented in a better way. Basically we need some automatically update check feature on the app start & a mechanism also to give some interface to manually update the app.

[LinFeiLong]

@vipinjoshiMeta I resolved the issue on my side. It’s not an issue properly talking. I had to add "runtimeVersion": { "policy": "nativeVersion" }, to the app.json. Then the automatic update worked.

[LinFeiLong]

Hi @vipinjoshiMeta , I’m facing the same issue.